James Hogg Quotes

Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart-better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

If a body could just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day, and keep to that, I verily trow that he might leeve for ever, without dying at a', and that doctors and kirkyards would og oot o' fashion.